Re: [Devil-linux-develop] DL 1.4, ping

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

> I have just found out that in DL 1.4, the ping command (from inetutils)
> is missing the -I option.... the ping from iputils (used in 1.2.x).
>
> '-I' permits to specify the source address or interface used for the
> ICMP packets, so this was very useful for testing tunnels. Is there some
> other way to do this?

ping from iputils is setting there in the tmp directory, but is not
the one being installed.  It doesn't matter to me which ones we use,
and I don't know why we switched to the inetutils version of ping.
Heiko?

FWIW, ping on Ubuntu 9.04 appears to be the one from iputils.  At
least the "--help" screen looks like the iputils version, not the
inetutils version of ping.

 - BS